The Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Safari app has been named as the winner of the inaugural UKLA Digital Book Award. The award, in partnership with Book Trust, and sponsored by The Open University, is the only national Digital Book Award judged by teachers. You can read more about the award here, and find Flip Flap Safari on the App Store here.

There’s a Bear on My Chair by Ross Collins has been included in The Sunday Times’ round-up of Summer children’s books. Nicolette Jones writes, “This stylish, Dr Seussian, laugh-together picture book delights in simple, scanning rhyme, funny lines, a surprise ending and Collins’s sure, comical draughtsmanship.” You can read the full piece here.

Cowgirl, the debut novel by G.R. Gemin, has been shortlisted for the 2015 Branford Boase Award. The award is given annually to the author and editor of an outstanding debut novel for children – alongside G.R. Gemin, Cowgirl’s editor, Kirsty Stansfield, is also shortlisted. The winner of the award will be announced on the 9th July at a ceremony in London.

Cowgirl, the debut novel by G.R. Gemin, has been shortlisted for a Tir na n-Og award, in the Best English-language Book category. Bev Bannon, Chair of the English-language Selection Panel, said, “Cowgirl is a story full of humour, passion, community spirit and great optimism. The lilting tones of the Welsh language permeate the story and this, coupled with excellent descriptions of the estate and its inhabitants, add to the “Welshness” of the piece.” The winner will be announced at a special event at Swansea Library on Thursday, 14 May 2015.

Two Nosy Crow titles – My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat, written by Pamela Butchart and illustrated by Thomas Flintham, and The Farm Beneath the Water, written by Helen Peters – are featured in The Independent’s list of the 12 best children’s books of 2015. Of My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat, Rebecca Davies writes, “The book is as accessible as it is hilarious, with entertaining line drawings from Thomas Flintham and easy-to-read prose that cleverly sneaks in the odd tricky word.” On The Farm Beneath the Water, Davies writes, “its depiction of friendship and family are so authentic and full of heart that the story feels both compelling and current.”

Two Nosy Crow titles, The Farm Beneath the Water by Helen Peters and Use Your Imagination by Nicola O’Byrne, have been shortlisted for 2015 Independent Bookshop Week Book Awards. The Farm Beneath the Water has been shortlisted in the children’s fiction category and Use Your Imagination in the picture book category. The winners will be announced on June 20 – the first day of Independent Bookshop Week – and you can read the full shortlists here.

Cowgirl, the debut novel by G. R. Gemin, has been shortlisted for a UKLA Book Award in the 7-11 category. The three winners of the awards will be announced on July 10th during the 51st UKLA International Conference, and you can read the full shortlists here.

The Guardian have awarded five stars to our new fairytale app, Snow White by Nosy Crow. Of the app, Stuart Dredge writes, “It tells a familiar story in a beguiling new way that never prioritises digital gimmickry over reading and storytelling.” You can read the full review here.

Nosy Crow has been shortlisted in two categories of the 2015 Bookseller Industry Awards. We’ve been shortlisted for the Children’s Publisher of the Year Award and the Independent Publisher of the Year Award (the only children’s publisher to be shortlisted in this category). The full shortlists can be found here.